The Evenlode Rooms at Firehouse Oxford

Booked a twin room through Booking.com but this was passed to the Evenlode as a generic double room. In future we'll book direct.
All rooms are upstairs not easy to access for anyone with mobility issues.

We booked for dinner and was told when we sat down that we had 15 minutes to order as the kitchen was closing. Wish I was informed of this sooner

Whilst well decorated and comfortable the rooms cleanliness wasn't brilliant. Yes - the sheets were clean, the floor had been hoovered and the likes but things like the shower head was in need of descaling, the bathroom overall could use some TLC at a glance it looked clean but up close the corners of the shower were grimy, even the (apparently refilled/reused) soap dispenser was gunked up, the window opening mechanism was broken on one of the windows and the room itself smelt strongly of 'dog' when we arrived. We wholeheartedly accept that the property is pet friendly, but we wound up leaving the one window we could open, open, whilst we were out for dinner, and had to take the fragrance diffuser out of the bathroom and leave in the main room to negate the smell - which was successful.

Finally, and I accept these are likely things that the property can't do much about:
- you are right on a busy (and therefore noisy) road which did at times keep us both up
- the smoke detectors in the room flash intermittently all night and the flash is SO bright, to the extent when I stirred in the night I thought it was lightening, the whole room lit up!

Er wordt geen ontbijt geserveerd. Stond bij de beschrijving ook niet vermeld, maar was toch een tegenvaller. De kamers aan de noordkant liggen aan de zijde waarlangs de A40 ligt. Het verkeer over die A40 is daarom zeer goed hoorbaar. De ramen houden nauwelijks geluid tegen (enkelglas en oude kozijnen). Het geluid van de op de begane grond gelegen pub annex restaurant is in de kamers op de eerste etage goed hoorbaar. De muziek wordt pas rond half 11 's avonds uitgezet. De badkamer is erg klein, wel met toilet en douchecabine.

Too noisy for me. The music was too loud from downstairs and very loud when people leaving outside.

Constant intermittent loud noises from the room below room 7 throughout the entire night. Sounded like an electric drill drilling into a brick wall at one point. I was woken up at 12.30am and was kept awake all night. Plus there was a bright light, like the light from a phone torch, flashing from the smoke detector every 20 seconds throughout the night.

Plus there was an awful sewer smell in the bathroom.

Not a good stay at all. If I had brought ear plugs, an eye mask and an air freshener I may have had a better stay. Refund would be appreciated.

Load music at night which I wasn’t expecting

Only slight issue was that there was nowhere to hang clothes. There was a clothes rail but no hangers. Not a big deal for our one night stay but may be an issue for others.

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